Seriously. We're the state that forced the Supreme Court once and for all to decide on whether or not mixed race couples could marry and live with one another. Spoiler alert: Virginia lost that decision.

Still a law here in Florida too. Before my wife and I were married, we lived in 2 separate apartment complexes that never even brought up the issue. You know they're not going to turn away business. Seems the only people who would care are people who have noisy neighbors and wish to punish them

So, now can we have a Virginia tag? 'cause this place is Bat shiat Crazy if there ever was such a place. The good news is that we are about to export our BSC governor to the rest of the country...enjoy, and...you're welcome.

Squawky:Virginia must have a lot of studio and 1-bedroom apartments if having room mates is against the law.

Oh, something fun I learned in college, most areas in VA still have laws on the books that more than 2 or 3 women cannot live together alone because it would constitute as a brothel. Unless they had a House a Mother. But wouldn't that make it worse?

Anyway, my sister found out that one when she and some girlfriends tried renting a house together and were unlucky enough to find a landlord who actually cited this law as to not rent to them.

KatjaMouse:SevenizGud: Maybe subby thinks Virginia is a city in Massachusetts.

Seriously. We're the state that forced the Supreme Court once and for all to decide on whether or not mixed race couples could marry and live with one another. Spoiler alert: Virginia lost that decision.

and the text of the decision of trial court in that case may be one of the most ignorant and racist things ever committed to paper by a supposedly learned man:

"Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And but for the interference with his arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix. "

KatjaMouse:Squawky: Virginia must have a lot of studio and 1-bedroom apartments if having room mates is against the law.

Oh, something fun I learned in college, most areas in VA still have laws on the books that more than 2 or 3 women cannot live together alone because it would constitute as a brothel. Unless they had a House a Mother. But wouldn't that make it worse?

Anyway, my sister found out that one when she and some girlfriends tried renting a house together and were unlucky enough to find a landlord who actually cited this law as to not rent to them.

Which, likely, ironically enough probably violated the Fair Housing Act, but small landlords can get out of ocmplying with that law

dj1s:So, now can we have a Virginia tag? 'cause this place is Bat shiat Crazy if there ever was such a place. The good news is that we are about to export our BSC governor to the rest of the country...enjoy, and...you're welcome.

Virginia isn't really that Bat Guano Crazy or the home of weird news like Florida. We also are afforded the good fortune of having some of the best institutions in the country and one of the most educated cluster of districts in the country to dilute the amount of "Hold my beer and watch this" populations in the state. However, what we do have are crazy conservative politicians who shame us but I don't consider it enough to denote our own tag. Even if we did end up mailing crocheted vaginas to our state legislature. (Might be NSFW if your cube mate has a stick up their tush)

Magorn:KatjaMouse: SevenizGud: Maybe subby thinks Virginia is a city in Massachusetts.

Seriously. We're the state that forced the Supreme Court once and for all to decide on whether or not mixed race couples could marry and live with one another. Spoiler alert: Virginia lost that decision.

and the text of the decision of trial court in that case may be one of the most ignorant and racist things ever committed to paper by a supposedly learned man:

"Almighty God created the races white, black, yellow, malay and red, and he placed them on separate continents. And but for the interference with his arrangement there would be no cause for such marriages. The fact that he separated the races shows that he did not intend for the races to mix. "

See this is one of the reasons that church and state should be kept seperate. As soon as any person in the position to make decision on laws uses God as an argument, they should be immediately thrown from office.This is something that this country has completely lost sight of.

I remember reading about a political race in Australia where the candidate mentioned that God was on his side. He got laughed out of the room. That, to me, makes much more sense.

KatjaMouse:dj1s: So, now can we have a Virginia tag? 'cause this place is Bat shiat Crazy if there ever was such a place. The good news is that we are about to export our BSC governor to the rest of the country...enjoy, and...you're welcome.

Virginia isn't really that Bat Guano Crazy or the home of weird news like Florida. We also are afforded the good fortune of having some of the best institutions in the country and one of the most educated cluster of districts in the country to dilute the amount of "Hold my beer and watch this" populations in the state. However, what we do have are crazy conservative politicians who shame us but I don't consider it enough to denote our own tag. Even if we did end up mailing crocheted vaginas to our state legislature. (Might be NSFW if your cube mate has a stick up their tush)

ha-ha-guy:I broke the law about this in Michigan for three years solid.

/I told you I was hardcore

Oh and now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure one of my tenants had his girlfriend move in, so I might be breaking the law by renting to such a couple.

/I should remember to mail her the form about emergency contact information in case something happens//or be an ultra dick and demand an extra 250 a month and a lease update because there are now people living there/really though as long as the rent check arrives and you aren't trashing the place, look at all the farks I give

PrivateCaboose:KatjaMouse: dj1s: So, now can we have a Virginia tag? 'cause this place is Bat shiat Crazy if there ever was such a place. The good news is that we are about to export our BSC governor to the rest of the country...enjoy, and...you're welcome.

Virginia isn't really that Bat Guano Crazy or the home of weird news like Florida. We also are afforded the good fortune of having some of the best institutions in the country and one of the most educated cluster of districts in the country to dilute the amount of "Hold my beer and watch this" populations in the state. However, what we do have are crazy conservative politicians who shame us but I don't consider it enough to denote our own tag. Even if we did end up mailing crocheted vaginas to our state legislature. (Might be NSFW if your cube mate has a stick up their tush)

NOVA /= Virginia

I went to VCU down in RVA, and that + MCV Medical Campus, William & Mary, VT, and UVA, among others, are all spread out amongst the rest of the state. And besides, never have I seen a greater concentration of liberals and hipsters than my time living in the Fan District down in Richmond. Yes, even greater than the number I'd see on U St in the District.

That being said I sign any and all petitions presented to me that request NoVA seceding and becoming its own state.

Is this one of those laws that everyone is/was obligated to follow simply because it was enacted by a majority of lawmakers, who quite possibly represented the true will of the majority of the people at the time?

KatjaMouse:PrivateCaboose: KatjaMouse: dj1s: So, now can we have a Virginia tag? 'cause this place is Bat shiat Crazy if there ever was such a place. The good news is that we are about to export our BSC governor to the rest of the country...enjoy, and...you're welcome.

Virginia isn't really that Bat Guano Crazy or the home of weird news like Florida. We also are afforded the good fortune of having some of the best institutions in the country and one of the most educated cluster of districts in the country to dilute the amount of "Hold my beer and watch this" populations in the state. However, what we do have are crazy conservative politicians who shame us but I don't consider it enough to denote our own tag. Even if we did end up mailing crocheted vaginas to our state legislature. (Might be NSFW if your cube mate has a stick up their tush)

NOVA /= Virginia

I went to VCU down in RVA, and that + MCV Medical Campus, William & Mary, VT, and UVA, among others, are all spread out amongst the rest of the state. And besides, never have I seen a greater concentration of liberals and hipsters than my time living in the Fan District down in Richmond. Yes, even greater than the number I'd see on U St in the District.

That being said I sign any and all petitions presented to me that request NoVA seceding and becoming its own state.

I just meant going based off your profile where you live. Virginia Tech is an awesome, awesome time though. Blacksburg is FUN if you know people there.

Wow, Virginia is like Dubai (and substancial portions of the Middle East)? How progressive.

Friend of mine rented a place (in Dubai) to a couple from Europe, found out they weren't married (so cohabitating is against the law there), got REALLY concerned when the woman got pregnant (the concern was "what if the hospital asks for a marriage license during prenatal checks or at delivery). Never heard of any problems since, so either the couple bulled their way through it, got married before the baby arrived or moved back to Europe. Just as well, pretty sure that anywhere with draconian laws like that would take a dim view of "aiding and abetting" sinful behaviour, I would have hated to fly out there for the purposes of trying to bail my friend out of jail for simply renting a house to a couple.

I went to VCU down in RVA, and that + MCV Medical Campus, William & Mary, VT, and UVA, among others, are all spread out amongst the rest of the state. And besides, never have I seen a greater concentration of liberals and hipsters than my time living in the Fan District down in Richmond. Yes, even greater than the number I'd see on U St in the District.

That being said I sign any and all petitions presented to me that request NoVA seceding and becoming its own state.

I don't think NOVAns would at all mind not being saddled with the rest of Virginia... although the mountains ARE pretty. I think the rest of Virginia would miss NOVA though -- without NOVA, who would pay for those beautiful smooth roads that all Virginians get as a god-given right... except those of us paying most of the taxes?/Not that I'm bitter that I literally broke my car on potholes in NOVA//That was 10 years ago - that same stretch of road is still just as bad///I sigh in nostalgia for the gorgeous roads in poor rural Virginia////and the beautiful mountains//But not all the Confederate flags - where are we, backwater Alabama??

KatjaMouse:durbnpoisn: I remember reading about a political race in Australia where the candidate mentioned that God was on his side. He got laughed out of the room. That, to me, makes much more sense.

You ever read a comment thread on an international news site concerning American Politics and God? The concept of having the two on the same plane just baffles people.

Darlene K. Davis, 73, told the Post a state inspector attempted to take away her day care license after learning that Davis had been living with her boyfriend for 16 years. "She said, 'You live in sin,'" Davis said.

I'd like to meet this state inspector. She must be a genuinely kind-hearted person.

tentaculistic:I don't think NOVAns would at all mind not being saddled with the rest of Virginia... although the mountains ARE pretty. I think the rest of Virginia would miss NOVA though -- without NOVA, who would pay for those beautiful smooth roads that all Virginians get as a god-given right... except those of us paying most of the taxes?/Not that I'm bitter that I literally broke my car on potholes in NOVA//That was 10 years ago - that same stretch of road is still just as bad///I sigh in nostalgia for the gorgeous roads in poor rural Virginia

There's a new controversy about building a new Toll Road along side 64 in Hampton Roads. Now, I know that area is a disaster when it comes to driving and that 64 is utterly burdened and that they deserve to have more than one point of entry/exit to the shore. However the billions being sunk into that project seems to be pissing everyone north of Fredericksburg off. Don't even get me started on the cluster f*ck that's Tysons Corner now.

KatjaMouse:There's a new controversy about building a new Toll Road along side 64 in Hampton Roads.Now, I know that area is a disaster when it comes to driving and that 64 is utterly burdened and that they deserve to have more than one point of entry/exit to the shore

Well, that's just because the bastards around Wiliamsburg won't allow another bridge over the James, and Suffolk County is too broke to build a causeway through the swamp to the bridge that is already there. NOVA can whine all they want but the money is supposed to come from the I-95 and I-64 toll slush fund. No tolls happen, no roads happen.

In related news, Southside has become a 200 mile wide peninsula of North Carolina, with 'No Toll Roads' signs every half-mile.

In VA, they don't investigate or do an autopsy on someone if they die in their own house. I assumed like most states that they would, but no. My Dad died and was creamated and it would have been nice to know exactly what he died from, and not just "some kind of heart attack". Damn backwards-ass hillbilly state.

gabba2:In VA, they don't investigate or do an autopsy on someone if they die in their own house. I assumed like most states that they would, but no. My Dad died and was creamated and it would have been nice to know exactly what he died from, and not just "some kind of heart attack". Damn backwards-ass hillbilly state.

So... what you're saying is... if I get sick of my man, I can sprinkle a little arsenic over his ice cream, let him die in his sleep, and no one will be none the wiser?

If I were living in sin in VA i'd totally feel guilty about breaking the law and my girlfriend and I would go straight to the police office to turn ourselves in. It would be even more fun if I was gay. Be all "My boyfriend and I have been cohabitating. In a romantic way. I'm talking penises in all orifices here, and sleeping in the same bed and mixing our laundry and everything."

All couples who "not married to each other, lewdly and lasciviously associate and cohabit together" in VA should come clean right now, let the law do with them what it will, just to see what happens and have a laugh.

the801:If I were living in sin in VA i'd totally feel guilty about breaking the law and my girlfriend and I would go straight to the police office to turn ourselves in. It would be even more fun if I was gay. Be all "My boyfriend and I have been cohabitating. In a romantic way. I'm talking penises in all orifices here, and sleeping in the same bed and mixing our laundry and everything."

All couples who "not married to each other, lewdly and lasciviously associate and cohabit together" in VA should come clean right now, let the law do with them what it will, just to see what happens and have a laugh.